The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group
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In his introduction to the article 1871 Singapore – Hong Kong Cable on his website, History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications, linked below, Bill Burns writes:- The China Submarine Telegraph Company was set up by John Pender in 1869 to link Hong Kong into his growing network of cable companies. Telcon manufactured the cable and used CS Agnes, Kangaroo, Belgian and Minia to lay […]
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Mike T: Regarding the Wo Fat Hing Distillery I’m guessing the type of wine specifically made there was 玉冰燒酒 (Juk Bing Siu Zau) or 肉醪燒 (Juk Lou Siu), as they mention pork being placed in the wine as part of the process. Wikipedia says that it’s, “…a Cantonese rice liquor with over 100 years of history, made with steamed rice. After distillation, […]
» Read moreIn his introduction to the article 1871 Singapore – Hong Kong Cable on his website, History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications, linked below, Bill Burns writes:- The China Submarine Telegraph Company was set up by John Pender in 1869 to link Hong Kong into his growing network of cable companies. Telcon manufactured the cable and used CS Agnes, Kangaroo, Belgian and Minia to lay […]
» Read moreTHE HONGKONG PRINTING PRESS, PART II Pedro Xavier: A New Generation Emerges. On the death of his father in May 1909, six months before his twenty-third birthday, Pedro Xavier became president of the Hongkong Printing Press. In the year that followed, while settling the business affairs of the firm, which employed family members and local Chinese, as well as […]
» Read moreSee: Happy 97th birthday Stanley Ho: 5 things to know about the casino magnate SCMP 25th November 2018 Stanley Ho, patriarch of Asia’s largest casino empire and the ‘King of Gambling’ for more than half a century, dies at 98 SCMP 26th May 2020
» Read moreFormed: 28th January 1930 Dissolved: 9th November 1950 see: http://www.hkmemory.hk/collections/oral_history/All_Items_OH/oha_92/highlight/index.html#p64776 see: Barry Sturman em. He’s writing an article about the company to be published later in the year or next year and asks if I would like to post it on the website.
» Read moreThe business of night soil collection Moira Chan-Yeung, FHKCP, FRCPC (Internal Medicine) Honorary Clinical Professor, The University of Hong Kong; Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia; https://www.hkmj.org/system/files/hkmj-v22n5-hkmms.pdf Member, Education and Research Committee, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society Reminiscence: FIG 1. Receipt issued by the Hong Kong Kowloon Night Soil Collection Company (Authorised by the Hygiene Department, […]
» Read moresee comments by… Douglas Ward emailed (I think) on 24/7/20 Joan Harrison Reiss, Anthony… HF: Douglas Ward left this comment attached to our article Reiss Bradley – the Forgotten Hong on 24th July 2020. Unfortunately I was unable to contact him by the email address he left with his comment on 24th July 2020. Thank you very much for writing […]
» Read moreNick Kitto has kindly sent this brief summary of the origins of the Asiatic Petroleum Company extracted from Shell Oil Company’s website: Shell Transport and Royal Dutch were originally competitors. In 1903, they agreed to establish a joint marketing company for the Far East operations. The Asiatic Petroleum Company (APC) was thus incorporated in London. APC established branch offices in […]
» Read moreAC kindly left a comment on our Q+A45 Proposed fixed crossing to Lantau Island, late 1970s. AC’s comment included a link to a A White Paper on Internal Transport Policy published in May 1979 titled Keeping Hong Kong Moving. I thought this was of sufficient interest and relevance to our website to include information extracted from it in its own […]
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